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The Maine-focused Commercial Fisheries News published its final edition in December 2025. Shutterstock photo.

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After 53 years, Maine’s fishing voice falls silent

Jerry Fraser

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Winter fishing, recovery, and hydration

Monique Coombs

Alexandra Morton started off presenting fisheries science aimed at protecting wild salmon. “When I saw the science wasn’t bringing change, I became an activist,” she says. Simon Fraser University photo.

Removal of BC salmon farms coincides with rebounding wild runs

Paul Molyneaux

Oregon's Newport Harbor. Creative Commons photo by D. Reinhart.

Local Ocean Seafoods: A business model for fishing communities

Paul Molyneaux

Heavy seas at the Block Island Wind Array in Rhode Island, the first offshore wind array in the United States. Department of Energy photo

The lost future of offshore wind

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Melanie in the skiff with her mother and sister, Kathy, and Elaine in 2012. Elaine Chukan Brown photo.

The fishing work of women

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Despite a ban on wild caught shrimp from fisheries in many countries, due to begin on Jan. 1, the Southern Shrimp Alliance points out that the countries that supply most of the shrimp to the USA have been given a pass. Paul Molyneaux photo.

NOAA Fisheries falls short on shrimp

Paul Molyneaux

Louisiana shrimp captain Acy Cooper talks about the history and slow decline on the Gulf shrimp fishery in the film 'The Last of the Shrimpers.' Last of the Shrimpers image.

‘Last of the Shrimpers’ premiers in New Orleans

Paul Molyneaux

Horseshoe crabs come ashore by the thousands to breed in spring at Mispillion Harbor, Del., and other Delaware Bay beaches. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Gregory Breese photo.

NY fishermen say horseshoe crab management is working

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The R/V Virginia, the primary research vessel for the Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program. Matthew Farnham photo/VIMS.

Chesapeake Bay study shows biodiversity key to stable fisheries

Shoulder, wrist, and elbow issues are common among fishermen. David McLain photo.

Work like a fisherman, recover like an athlete

Monique Coombs